So it was my little bro's birthday the other day and I've decided it it now time to get him into music. However a lot of my music would turn him off music intitally. So I am asking for some easy to like, fun and age appropriate music. Thanks yous in advances.

probably nothing too obscure or indie... that shit might be cool to know about when you're 18 but I doubt 12 year-old (other than Bitchfork) is gonna go "hey no one's heard of that, I want to listen to it!"... so I recommend you stick to the quality classic / mainstream stuff before trying to get him to branch out a little.

@Blackbelt I think most of us listened to stuff like Radiohead WAY too early in our lives/ music development. I want him to like the 4/5 stuff first so Radiohead can completely and utterly bllow him away.

keep the recs coming. However my dad drilled every classic rock album (well good one) into his/my head by the time we were 3 so those, while welcomed are not that useful to me.

When I was twelve and was getting into "good" music I thought Braid was the coolest thing ever. Give him some Thursday and some The Number Twelve Looks Like You. Some Fleet Foxes would probably work really well. Neutral Milk Hotel would, too. Brand New, definitely. Say Anything will work nicely, too. Um... try some American Football and some Piebald and some This Time We Will Not Promise and Forgive. Planet of Ice... Foals. Definitely some Foals. I want to know someone who has Total Life Forever as something nostalgic. Some Ra Ra Riot, too. It's weird imagining this having been me about 2 years ago (btw guys only 8 days left until my birfday we need a new 13 yr old)

figure 8 was like the first album i listened to after the beatles when i was about 11-12 and i didn't really notice the lyrical themes, the music is just fucking awesome especially if he likes the beatles. plus figure 8 is not that depressing

does it have to be rock? how about some Daft Punk, Beastie Boys, Ratatat, LCD Soundsystem, The Roots? or I was really into ska/punk when I was younger, maybe he would like Streetlight Manifesto or the Descendents.